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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Toll Fraud
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Do you ever wonder why your phone rates are so expensive? Do
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you consider your rates to be 'pretty good'? If so, you need to reconsider
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some facts about your phone company. Regardless of what carrier you are
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going through, you are getting charged unmercifully for basic services
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that are fully automated, and basically cost free on maintenence.
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A few months ago I read a book called _Information Warfare_ by
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Winn Schwartau. Great book, and I recommend it. In one of his chapters he
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dealt with telephone fraud and mentioned some basic facts, methods, etc.
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Some of the stats he put in there intrigued me, and in turn lead to this
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file. He printed up MCI's estimates of alleged phone fraud/abuse for
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19__ in this chapter. Here they are:
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Stolen Long Distance $1,800,000,000
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800 Toll Fraud 350,000,000
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Victim Costs 51,000,000
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Carrier and Vendor Fees 32,000,000
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Cellular Fraud 700,000,000
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Credit Card Toll Fraud 400,000,000
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COCOT Fraud 60,000,000
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Subscription Fraud 300,000,000
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Telabuse 5,200,000,000
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Total $8,893,000,000
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This means that every person in the world (all 5 billion or so)
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has committed $1.77 of telephone fraud. If this is purely domestic, then
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that means each American commited some $29.65 worth of toll fraud. Do you
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believe it?
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Assuming about 400,000 people in the world (Hackers, Phreaks,
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Gangs, Phone Employees, etc..) have the skills and recorces to actually
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commit toll fraud, and are willing too, that is $22,232.50 in toll fraud
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per person.
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In the book, it doesn't go into detail about what each of these
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categories mean. Some are quite obvious, but others are extremeley vague,
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and happen to have the larger numbers. Lets break these down real quick
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and figure out what they mean.
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If all those other ones are toll fraud, then why should victim cost be in
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there? Isn't that what fraud is? Stealing service/money from another?
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Since when does that actually COST the victim? If someone steals some
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calls from me by beige boxing, do I actually PAY for anything? No.
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This is a convenient way for them to put the number in there twice.
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Carrier and Vendor Fees is 32 mil? Translated, they are charging way
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too much for some really basic shit.
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COCOT fraud - 60 mil?!?! The only way it could be that high is if everyone
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knew how to abuse one, and it actually worked. I can tell you that in
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several NPAs I have been in, including the one I live in, it is much easier
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to build a red box and hit normal payphones instead of spending time
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to do a COCOT.
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Subscription fraud..hmm. guess that means when new customers subscribe
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and then cancel after getting some free service, if so, then once again,
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look at what they are charging!
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Stolen Long Distance is one of the highest on the chart. Problem is, once
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again they are putting the same shit on there twice (if not more now). If
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I abuse a COCOT what do I do? Steal long distance. If I hack a cellular
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phone and make a call, what am I stealing? If I use someone else's credit
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or calling card, what am I stealing in the long run? Long Distance, yet
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those topics are all individually put on the chart.
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And the ever so cryptic 'teleabuse'. What the fuck is that if not
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everything else they listed?
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The point of all this. Those figures are the basis for inflating
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rates to counter fraud. Credit Card companies, cell companies, phone
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companies, and all sorts of other companies do the same thing. And we
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wonder why inflation exists?
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Last thing to consider.. If those are the stats for MCI alone,
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think of what AT&T will claim? 15 Billion? 20 Billion? Do you REALLY
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think people steal that much phone service? Do they have a legitimate
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argument to raise prices THAT much? I didn't think so.. write to your
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senator, the Better Business Beureau, and to the phone company itself.
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Tell them to quit with the bullshit reason for inflated prices.
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"There are two kinds of customers; those that have been the victims of toll
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fraud, and those who will be." - MCI, 1991
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DisordeR
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